OCR API for JavaScript

Question

I am looking for JavaScript OCR API.

Something like: send the image and the expected type of result (e.g. numbers, object, text, mixed, etc.) and get the result as a string or JSON.

Does anyone know of an API / Service that you can easily access through JavaScript?

EDIT: I forgot to say that the main use case would be simply recognition of numbers (like floats and doubles) and prices (like $ 0.02).

I already found some "cloud APIs" like abbyy, but they are expensive ... 2 cents per request ...

Answer 1

I see that this is an old post, but the topic is still open, and now there are new players. You can use the OCR API from HP Haven OnDemand . There are free developer accounts, you can try the API online with your own image, and they support JavaScript (among other languages) and provide JSON output.

They also have some tutorials for OCR with JavaScript that can help you.

• [javascript] Using OCR and Entity Extraction to search on LinkedIn
• [JavaScript] Extract contact information from business cards

Hope this helps.

Hi,

Hughesthe1st
(I work for HP)

Answer 2

Try Ocrad.js . Demonstrations:

• draw text
• use webcam